EEOC Announces Plans for New Workplace Harassment Study

Yesterday, the Chair of the EEOC, Jenny R. Yang revealed that the Commission
will be conducting an in-depth study on
workplace harassment over the course of the next year or so.

Led by a 16-member Select Task Force, this study will specifically analyze:

The current state of workplace harassment in the U.S.

The various forms workplace harassment can take

Workplace harassment prevention methods.

Explaining the importance of this study, Yang noted that:

A lot of progress has been made around the issue of workplace harassment,
but we know it remains a persistent problem. Complaints of harassment
span all industries, include many of our most vulnerable workers, and
are included in 30% of the charges that we receive.

Commissioner Victoria A. Lipnic echoed these sentiments, noting that:

I wish a task force on workplace harassment wasn’t necessary in 2015.
But, I hope and expect the expertise of our task force members will provide
the insights and strategies needed to prevent harassment from occurring
in more workplaces in the first place.

According to the
press release announcing this workplace harassment study, the Select Task Force includes
a range of professionals (including attorneys, academics, workers and
others), all of whom will focus on devising innovative and effective strategies
for addressing and curbing workplace harassment.

A Current Snapshot of Workplace Harassment in the U.S.

While the EEOC Workplace Harassment Study may end up being crucial to developing
better ways of preventing and addressing workplace harassment, current
research suggests that:

Nearly 7 percent of U.S. workers have recently been the victims of workplace
harassment.

S. employers should be more concerned about preventing and stopping workplace
harassment, as it ends up costing them significantly in terms of high
turnover rates, lost productivity and, in the most serious cases, lawsuits
and damage to their reputations.

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